parboil
Meaning of parboil
verb
- partly cook (food) by boiling.
parboil the vegetables in salted water for about 5 minutes
late Middle English: from Old French parbouillir, from late Latin perbullire ‘boil thoroughly’, from Latin per- ‘through, thoroughly’ (later confused with part) + bullire ‘to boil’.
Information about parboil
- It is a verb.
- The plural form of parboil is: parboils.
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Hyphenation of parboil
par-boil
- It consists of 2 syllables and 7 chars.
- parboil is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
parboil synonyms
Meaning blanch:
Translation of parboil
- Spanish: parbolizar
- Italian: sbollentare, scottare
- German: blanchieren
Anagrams of parboil
Words that rhyme with parboil
boil, aboil, preboil, reboil, emboil, gumboil, upboil, garboil, overboil, underboil, chesboil, potboil
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